Hot Buttered Death

Right, change is now officially afoot. Look here . I'm going to experiment with layout and templates and stuff, see how much CSS I ne...

Dirty Northern Irish laundry about to come out in the wash. A branch of British army intelligence and some police officers in Northern Irela...

Who's looking after the children? U.S. forces have refused a Save the Children plane permission to land in northern Iraq (news - web sit...

Apparently Spinoza was right after all. Lately, scientists have begun to approach consciousness in more Spinozist terms: as a complex and in...

Gary S-T has an interesting story I didn't know about. I knew the government was ordered to stop indefinitely holding refugees when the...

Authenticity of the "Jesus box" apparently looking good. At least, the box itself is probably authentic first century AD stuff. Wh...

At least some Iraqi museum pieces are going home, it seems. Prodded by Muslim clerics and guilty consciences, Baghdad residents returned 20 ...

Saddam does an Osama. His regime crumbling, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein called on his people to resist American invasion and insisted he rem...

An interesting-looking new book on Krakatoa.

US gov't sides with record companies in music downloading case. Surprise, surprise.

Frank Rich praises The Daily Show's war coverage. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Stewart caused a stir by...

Blogcritics have redesigned, and this link is here because Eric Olsen emailed us all and asked nicely would we please link to the post annou...

Changes are afoot. More information as it comes to hand.

Can I just take this opportunity to curse Blogrolling.com? I don't use it myself, but that's because I refuse to use it when I see h...

Vote this guy for next leader of Iraq.

Portugal declared laziest nation in Europe.

Earliest writing found in China? Signs carved into 8,600-year-old tortoise shells found in China may be the earliest written words, say arch...

42% of America not online. Now that people can log on at work, at home, in coffee shops, in airports and even in public parks, the Internet ...

Atheist allowed to pray at council meetings. An atheist who sought to pray in City Council meetings for deliverance "from weak and stup...

Alan Jones found guilty of defamation. Sacked NSW policewoman Lola Scott was defamed by broadcaster Alan Jones during two on-air attacks abo...

Madonna releases tame version of "American Life" video. Must be really tame, then, cos I didn't think the original version (w...

Ikea embarrassed. Ikea has apologised after accidentally naming a child's bunk bed after an obscene German expression. The Swedish firm...

Louisiana police baffled by clean burglar. Next: Bosnian police tell Louisiana police to consider themselves lucky that they didn't hav...

Email. Facilitating conversation around the world, ruining lives in the process. Researchers have concluded email has become an increasing b...

PETA sinks to new low by co-opting Jesus. Local Jewish leaders say a billboard that promotes vegetarianism by claiming "Jesus was the p...

Richard Jinman in praise of Dark Side of the Moon .

Holy shit. When the music newspaper Revolver folded this month after six years, the seven staff went to a pub, drowned their sorrows and won...

Oy. I just got a spam message with the subject "Wish you had lager breasts". I do not require the enlargement of my manboobs, than...

Brian Weatherson ponders those deep cultural divisions between us and the US. One of the things that takes a while getting used to in Americ...

Ugh. British police today offered a STG5,000 ($A12,940) reward after the body of a Muslim woman was found in a hospital mortuary, covered wi...

W's culture advisors resign over Iraq museum looting. Two cultural advisers to the Bush administration have resigned in protest over the...

Australia criticised for withdrawing from Iraq. The early withdrawal is believed to be in defiance of US wishes that some soldiers be kept i...

Hollywood's latest attempt to foil piracy. Cinea LLC, which created an encryption system for DVDs, and Sarnoff, a technology research fi...

Frances Katz appraises MTV's war coverage.

US offers piss-poor sum of money for info on Saddam. The United States is offering up to 200,000 for information on the whereabouts of ouste...

Bloggers and blog readers may be interested in this project being promoted by Tim Dunlop. I might take part in it myself.

Probably not that you care but I did go out last night. Decided I may as well brave the elements and potentially have a good time at the clu...

I was thinking of going out to Club 77 tonight, cos they've changed hands and the last goth club to be held there is on tonight. I don...

Every now and then I get actual email, as opposed to the 10000 pieces of spam per hour my Yahoo account collects. Hello to Paul Smith, wh...

Neal Pollack is in particularly fine form today.

The Smoking Gun has a beauty today. While all news organizations prepare obituaries in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folk...

The ultimate Beatles collectible? Fans of former-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney have been invited to bid for a tiny piece of musical history -- g...

Terror alert lowered to yellow. In other words, the threat of terror in the US is now merely elevated as opposed to high. You can all sleep...

Tatu in naked underage schoolgirl shock. And OH what hits I'm going to get from perverts looking for naked underage schoolgirls now...

Chicago no longer enforces laws against swearing. In related news, it becomes legal to read Hot Buttered Death in Chicago. Fuckin' A!

What the fuck is wrong with the Japanese? Some may pooh-pooh the claim, but with over 2 million sold, golden turds are the latest hit consum...

Madonna, for the love of God, just give up now before you make yourself look more ridiculous. Madonna has revealed her forthcoming children...

Even Jesus must wear a helmet when he's on his bike.

Bosnian police catch The Masturbator. Reports that he left a trail for them to follow have not been confirmed.

"Waiter! There's a worm in my soup!" "OK, crybaby, give it here and I'll eat it myself..."

Hell hath no fury like a TV fan scorned, apparently.

Alcoholics rejoice! The non-hangover vodka!

Oh God no. The 1980s television series "Knight Rider" and its crime-busting, talking car are revving up for the big screen. The d...

OH good grief. I've finally been able to access the Mohammed Al-Sahhaf fan site. Many priceless quotes have been offered from Sahhaf, b...

Ah, if only this weren't from the Weekly World News...

Sony withdraws, apologises for "shock and awe" patent. Electronics giant Sony has admitted "regrettable bad judgement" i...

What the hell? US commanders have said they will launch a "snatch-and-shoot" raid for Saddam Hussein if they track him to a hiding...

Robert Thomas is coming home too.

Australia pulling some of its troops out. Australia has decided to begin pulling its troops out of Iraq from next month with only a handful ...

Bob Hope is nearly 100. The legendary entertainer Bob Hope will turn 100 next month, and friends and fans gathered in Hollywood Tuesday to c...

Dave Trowbridge pretty much says it all. I remember vividly a day ten years ago when I stood in the National Archives before the plinth bear...

Incidentally, I've noticed Gummo splits up his more extended items across two or three posts because he says he has problems posting thi...

Ken was musing in the comments to this post : I'm also fascinated by the human drive to immortalise oneself, whether through conquest, c...

Pauline Hanson finally loses. Pauline Hanson's bid to enter the NSW Parliament ended just before 6pm yesterday when the State Electoral...

About fucking time. U.S. soldiers were standing guard Wednesday at Iraq's National Museum, where widespread looting broke out after the ...

Have you seen Ken Parish's dog? Three year old white poodle, answers to the name "Munchie".

*giggle* Thanks to Ted Barlow for turning that one up.

Christian rock band loses sales, airplay thanks to ideological incorrectness. In a letter dated Thurdsay, April 10, Alan Meltzer of Wind-Up ...

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf may have committed suicide. It may well be the ultimate in spin from the Iraqi minister of information, but this aft...

Vote now for who you want to be the next President of the US. Buddha is leading by a comfortable margin against W., though the Olsen Twins ...

Well DUH. Scientists believe they may have found a way to reduce the risk of a heart attack - watch an exciting football match. However, it...

Maybe this is how the problem of the looting in Iraq should be solved.

Indiana college haunted by "barfing ghost".

I don't fucking think so, thank you very much. We bloggers spend so much time, energy, and emotional effort revealing the most intimate ...

OK, this is taking the S/M thing a little too far for my liking.

James Cameron comes in on 90th day of nine-day wonder (with apologies to Alfred Hitchcock). Titanic director James Cameron is to film his ne...

Tony Blair: typical bloody man. Tony Blair may be a hardworking Prime Minister, but his wife has revealed his housekeeping skills leave a lo...

Charity wank set for webcast. Well, sort of. A community sex education centre is to broadcast a charity masturbate-a-thon live on the inter...

RIP Jean-Yves Escoffier. Jean-Yves Escoffier, a French cinematographer who shot the original "Three Men and a Cradle" for Coline S...

Just experimenting with borders around blockquoted text. Marking out the blockquoted areas with a separate background colour is kind of not ...

Oh, and, polling has now ceased operation. 100 people voted no, 77 voted yes. Results indicate, therefore, that only 44% of people would fel...

Howard knows his limits, apparently. MITCHELL: The Americans also seem to be turning attention to Syria. Do you support that? PRIME MINIST...

What was that about truth being the first casualty of war? THE “Stay Lucky” soldier pictured wearing a helmet riddled with bullet holes was ...

On parallel universes. Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with mis...

Achille Lauro hijack leader belatedly arrested.

Now James Frazier might lose that Academy Award of his. An Australian film-maker's 1997 Academy Award is in doubt, after a US judge rule...

The rise and fall of the music video. The irony is that in the late '80s and early '90s, as videos became more formally sophisticate...

Why don't they just fucking well ban cigarettes altogether? A SOUTH Australian government taskforce has recommended smoking be banned in...

US forces trying to hinder media coverage in Iraq. US forces yesterday tried to stop the media from covering a third day of anti-American pr...

And the war goes on. United States troops opened fire on a crowd hostile to the new pro-American governor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosu...

Australia loses asylum appeal. We've all been told to go back to our own country... oh all right, no we haven't. Australia's fe...

Googlenoia. Perhaps the time has come to recognise this dominant search engine for what it is - a public utility that must be regulated in t...

Oh what the fuck has happened to my template NOW? The blog looks as it should when I actually publish it but when I go into the template set...

The blogosphere is slowly realising that there was a massacre in the former Zaire last week, around the same time that Coalition forces wer...

Nigel Richardson really can't stand Donald Rumsfeld.

This much Ian McCulloch from Echo and the Bunnymen knows. We were the first band to split up because of culinary differences. If you're ...

Muslims angry over leniency for terrorist. Seminole podiatrist Robert J. Goldstein pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to plotting to b...

US to forgive Iraqi debt? Finance ministers and development activists gathered here Friday for meetings to discuss the world economy, povert...

Like quite a few people, Andrew Gumbel's wondering where the WMDs are. They were the reason the United States and Britain were in such a...

Maybe this is what Iraq needs instead of our system of government. A professional wrestler who fought his way to victory in local assembly e...

Like father like son, obviously.

Al Jazeera attacked from unlikely source. A vegetarian activist group says the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera is willing to run graphic f...

Norwegian school thoughtfully accommodates drunken students. Students at a Norwegian school are to be given an extra two hours in bed each m...

Damien Hirst moves from dead animals to live ones.

Witchcraft legalised in Victoria. WITCHES will be in stitches over the lifting of legal hitches on their craft. Currently, witchcraft, sorc...

Andrew Baio tries to determine what the most commonly misspelled word on the Internet is.

Another goddamned school shooting. Gunmen armed with an AK-47 rifle and a handgun opened fire in a packed high school gymnasium in America, ...

White House says no to Syria. The White House has privately ruled out suggestions that the US should go to war against Syria following its m...

Daytime TV gets first lesbian kiss. The kiss will take place during the April 22 episode of the Emmy-award winning soap opera "All My C...

US to "repair" Iraqi heritage. The United States has pledged to recover and repair the priceless antiquities looted from Iraq'...

John Howard looks on the bright side of SARS. Mr Howard said fewer people were travelling overseas due to fears surrounding SARS and the sca...

Greeks offer to go halves over the Elgin Marbles. GREECE has put forward a compromise loan deal that could end the tug-of-war over the Elgin...

Howard slams war critics. PRIME Minister John Howard today launched a scathing attack on "armchair generals" who criticised the co...

Zimbabwean man has nothing better to do with his time. A Zimbabwean man has talked his way into what could be a new Guinness world record wi...